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Mary Beltrán is a former member of the Board. This page is for archive purposes only; therefore, her bio may not be current.

Member, Board of Directors, 2014-2017

Biography:Mary Beltrán is an Associate Professor of Radio-Television-Film and affiliate of the Centers for Women’s and Gender Studies and Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.She joined the faculty at UT-Austin in 2011, after teaching in the Communication Arts Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ph.D., Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin
MS, Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Interests: The construction of race and ethnicity in U.S. television, film, and celebrity culture, with emphasis on Latina/o and mixed-race representation and on intersections with gender, class, and sexuality. Critical and cultural studies of television and film, feminist media studies, U.S. film & television history, alternative media and media activism.

Selected Publications:

Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film & TV Stardom (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009).